{"id":29456,"date":"2020-01-29T15:09:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29456"},"modified":"2020-01-29T15:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:14:41","slug":"three-visions-of-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29456","title":{"rendered":"Three visions of Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite stories is The Devil and Daniel Webster. Our great old debater got the best of Old Scratch as I recall. But there are many takes on Satan. Of the three I offer here the first is the most eye popping. <\/p>\n<p>Paula White &#8220;Trump&#8217;s personal religious advisor&#8221; and now advocate for aborting Satan&#8217;s babies: Click this link to cringe&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1221208783411650560\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1221208783411650560<\/a><br \/>\nA &#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s SNL&#8217;s Satan treatment as a fan boy of the President&#8217;s lawyers:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width='480' height='290' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/ebb127e5-29d7-4e86-adf2-99726b72bd06' frameborder='0' webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, one of my favorite scenes as a kid in the musical Damn Yankees. I just watched it for the first time in thirty years on Youtube. VIEWER WARNING: One scene now makes my flesh crawl extolling the delight with Indians scalping people on wagon trains. Other than being played a joke about how Old Scratch likes to inflict hell on innocents its not unlike the depiction of the &#8220;savages&#8221; in our Declaration of Independence. Wish I could clip it out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those Were The Good Old Days&#8221; Ray Walston singing the Devils song in the musical Damn Yankees<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"664\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5P0SplN4DTU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Note the Capitol dome behind the curtains in this scene. Times never change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite stories is The Devil and Daniel Webster. Our great old debater got the best of Old Scratch as I recall&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29456"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29484,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29456\/revisions\/29484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}